US Patent Issued to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 6 for "Systems and methods for performing transcranial ultrasound therapeutic and imaging procedures" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,403, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for performing transcranial ultrasound therapeutic and imaging procedures" was invented by Kullervo Hynynen (Toronto), Alec Hughes (Mississauga, Canada), Lulu Deng (Toronto) and Meaghan O'Reilly (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing transcranial diagnostic procedures using a transcranial ultrasound transducer array. The array elements are positioned and oriented such that far field regions respectively associated therewith spatially overlap within the brain of a patient. The...